Random House New Releases - Nature - Essayshttp://www.randomhouse.com/category/www.randomhouse.com2006-03-13T11:23:00-05:00Falling Into Place by Catherine Reidwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807061183"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780807061183" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807061183">Falling Into Place</a> An Intimate Geography of Home<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=172056">Catherine Reid</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>0 | Beacon Press | Nature - Essays; Literary Collections - Gay & Lesbian; Nature - Regional | <b>$14.00</b> | 978-0-8070-6118-3 (0-8070-6118-2)<p></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97808070611832015-07-14T00:30:00-05:00Ancient Places by Jack Nisbetwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781570619809"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781570619809" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781570619809">Ancient Places</a> People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=157294">Jack Nisbet</a></h3><b>Hardcover</b>, 256 pages | Sasquatch Books | History - United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa); Nature - Essays; Nature - Ecosystems & Habitats - Coastal Regions & Shorelines | <b>$23.95</b> | 978-1-57061-980-9 (1-57061-980-8)<p>These are the genesis stories of a region. In Ancient Places, Jack Nisbet uncovers touchstones across the Pacific Northwest that reveal the symbiotic relationship of people and place in this corner of the world. From rural Oregon, where a controversy brewed over the provenance and ownership of a meteor, to the great floods 15,000 years ago that shaped what is now Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, this is a compelling collection of stories about the natural and human history of our region.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97815706198092015-05-19T00:30:00-05:00Ancient Places by Jack Nisbetwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781570619816"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781570619816" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781570619816">Ancient Places</a> People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=157294">Jack Nisbet</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 256 pages | Sasquatch Books | History - United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa); Nature - Essays; Nature - Ecosystems & Habitats - Coastal Regions & Shorelines | <b>$23.95</b> | 978-1-57061-981-6 (1-57061-981-6)<p>These are the genesis stories of a region. In Ancient Places, Jack Nisbet uncovers touchstones across the Pacific Northwest that reveal the symbiotic relationship of people and place in this corner of the world. From rural Oregon, where a controversy brewed over the provenance and ownership of a meteor, to the great floods 15,000 years ago that shaped what is now Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, this is a compelling collection of stories about the natural and human history of our region.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97815706198162015-05-19T00:30:00-05:00The Sea Inside by Philip Hoarewww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781612194363"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781612194363" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781612194363">The Sea Inside</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=188547">Philip Hoare</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 384 pages | Melville House | Nature - Marine Life; Travel - Essays & Travelogues; Nature - Essays | <b>$17.95</b> | 978-1-61219-436-3 (1-61219-436-2)<p><b>A yearlong adventure through the world&rsquo;s oceans with Philip Hoare, the award-winning author of <i>The Whale</i><br></b><br>In colorful prose and lively line drawings, Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts. Starting at his home on the shores of Britain&rsquo;s Southampton Water and moving in ever widening circles&mdash;like the migration patterns of whales&mdash;Hoare explores London, the Isle of Wight, the Azores, Sri Lanka, Tasmania, and New Zealand.<br><br>As Hoare brilliantly weaves together literary and natural history, we encounter memorable people as well as the dolphins, whales, and other creatures above and below the water (even one species formerly believed to &#8232;be extinct).<br><br>Echoing the fine tradition of W. G. Sebald, but in a voice all Hoare&rsquo;s own, <i>The Sea Inside </i>is bursting with an endless series of delights and revelations from the ever-changing sea.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97816121943632015-04-28T00:30:00-05:00The Sound of Mountain Water by Wallace Stegnerwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781101911709"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781101911709" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781101911709">The Sound of Mountain Water</a> The Changing American West<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=29617">Wallace Stegner</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 288 pages | Vintage | Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection; Nature - Essays; Literary Collections - American | <b>$9.99</b> | 978-1-101-91170-9 (1-101-91170-0)<p>A book of timeless importance about the American West by a National Book Award&ndash; and Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author.&#160;The essays collected in this volume&#160;encompass memoir, nature&#160; conservation, history, geography, and literature. Delving into the post-World War II boom that brought the Rocky Mountain West&mdash;from&#160;Montana and Idaho to Utah and Nevada&mdash;into the modern age, Stegner's essays explore the essence of the American soul. <br><br>Writtten over a period of thirty-five years by a writer and thinker who will always hold a unique position in modern American letters, <i>The Sound of Mountain Water</i>&#160;is a modern American classic.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97811019117092015-02-18T00:30:00-05:00Home Grown by Ben Hewittwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781611801699"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781611801699" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781611801699">Home Grown</a> Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=189296">Ben Hewitt</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 224 pages | Roost Books | Family & Relationships - Education; House & Home - Sustainable Living; Nature - Essays | <b>$14.95</b> | 978-1-61180-169-9 (1-61180-169-9)<p>When Ben Hewitt and his wife bought a sprawling acreage of field and forest in northern Vermont, the landscape easily allowed them to envision the self-sustaining family farm they were eager to start. But over the years, the land became so much more than a building site; it became the birthplace of their two sons, the main source of family income and food, and ultimately, both classroom and home for their children. <br>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Having opted out of formal education, Hewitt's sons learn through self-directed play, exploration, and experimentation on their farm, in the woods, and (reluctantly) indoors. This approach has allowed the boys to develop confidence, resourcefulness, and creativity. They learn, they play, they read, they test boundaries, they challenge themselves, they fail, they recover. And these freedoms allow their innate personalities to flourish, further fueling growth and exploration. <br>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Living in tune with the natural world teaches us to reclaim our passion, curiosity, and connectivity. Hewitt shows us how small, mindful decisions about day-to-day life can lead to greater awareness of the world in your backyard and beyond. We are inspired to ask: What is the true meaning of "home" when the place a family lives is school, school system, and curriculum? When the parent is also the teacher, how do parenting decisions affect a child's learning? (And exactly how much trouble can a couple of curious boys gallivanting in the wild woods all day get into?) <i>Home Grown</i> reminds us that learning at any age is a lifelong process, and the best "education" is never confined to a classroom. These essays on nature, parenting, and education show us that big change can come from making small changes in how you live on the land, while building a life you love.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97816118016992014-09-09T00:30:00-05:00The Sea Inside by Philip Hoarewww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781612193595"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781612193595" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781612193595">The Sea Inside</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=188547">Philip Hoare</a></h3><b>Hardcover</b>, 384 pages | Melville House | Nature - Marine Life; Travel - Essays & Travelogues; Nature - Essays | <b>$27.99</b> | 978-1-61219-359-5 (1-61219-359-5)<p><b>A yearlong adventure through the world&rsquo;s oceans with Philip Hoare, the award-winning author of <i>The Whale</i><br></b><br>In colorful prose and lively line drawings, Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts. Starting at his home on the shores of Britain&rsquo;s Southampton Water and moving in ever widening circles&mdash;like the migration patterns of whales&mdash;Hoare explores London, the Isle of Wight, the Azores, Sri Lanka, Tasmania, and New Zealand.<br><br>As Hoare brilliantly weaves together literary and natural history, we encounter memorable people as well as the dolphins, whales, and other creatures above and below the water (even one species formerly believed to &#8232;be extinct).<br><br>Echoing the fine tradition of W. G. Sebald, but in a voice all Hoare&rsquo;s own, <i>The Sea Inside </i>is bursting with an endless series of delights and revelations from the ever-changing sea.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97816121935952014-04-29T00:30:00-05:00The Sea Inside by Philip Hoarewww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781612193601"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781612193601" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781612193601">The Sea Inside</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=188547">Philip Hoare</a></h3><b>eBook</b>0 | Melville House | Nature - Marine Life; Travel - Essays & Travelogues; Nature - Essays | <b>$27.99</b> | 978-1-61219-360-1 (1-61219-360-9)<p><b>A yearlong adventure through the world&rsquo;s oceans with Philip Hoare, the award-winning author of <i>The Whale</i><br></b><br>In colorful prose and lively line drawings, Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts. Starting at his home on the shores of Britain&rsquo;s Southampton Water and moving in ever widening circles&mdash;like the migration patterns of whales&mdash;Hoare explores London, the Isle of Wight, the Azores, Sri Lanka, Tasmania, and New Zealand.<br><br>As Hoare brilliantly weaves together literary and natural history, we encounter memorable people as well as the dolphins, whales, and other creatures above and below the water (even one species formerly believed to &#8232;be extinct).<br><br>Echoing the fine tradition of W. G. Sebald, but in a voice all Hoare&rsquo;s own, <i>The Sea Inside </i>is bursting with an endless series of delights and revelations from the ever-changing sea.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97816121936012014-04-29T00:30:00-05:00Falling into Place by Catherine Reidwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807009925"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780807009925" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807009925">Falling into Place</a> An Intimate Geography of Home<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=172056">Catherine Reid</a></h3><b>Hardcover</b>, 184 pages | Beacon Press | Nature - Essays; Literary Collections - Gay & Lesbian; Nature - Regional | <b>$24.95</b> | 978-0-8070-0992-5 (0-8070-0992-X)<p><b>Quietly powerful essays, weaving keenly observed insights into the mysteries of nature with those of family and community</b><br> &#160;<br>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not easy,&rdquo; Catherine Reid writes, &ldquo;to love a person and a place in equal measure.&rdquo; Love she does, however, as described in these intimate, lyric essays about the land and people around her. With the inside perspective of a native New Englander combined with her outsider status as a lesbian, Reid explores such paradoxes as those that arise from harnessing wild rivers or legalizing same-sex marriage. Her fascination with natural phenomena&mdash;whether bird hibernation, the arrival of fishers in suburbia, or the explosion of amphibious life in the wet weeks of spring&mdash;is captured in writing that pays as much attention to the sounds of a sentence as to the rhythms of the landscapes she wanders.<br> &#160;<br> Ultimately, Reid finds herself having to choose between her farmhouse near the Berkshires and a job in the South, between her known role in the land&rsquo;s stories and a new story yet to be written. Solace comes from companions as varied as a praying mantis, an otter, and her hundred-year-old grandmother, while resilience shows up in the stories of streams recovering from toxic spills and in communities weathering floods and town meetings. Reid celebrates the joyous engagement that comes with developing a deep connection with the places we call home and the life&mdash;human, animal, botanical&mdash;that surrounds us. At the same time, she offers keen insights into the way nature ultimately remains mysterious, beyond our knowing.<br> &#160;<br> Sensuous and provocative, <i>Falling into Place</i> faces the beauty and challenges of our changing world head-on.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97808070099252014-02-04T00:30:00-05:00Falling into Place by Catherine Reidwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807009932"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780807009932" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807009932">Falling into Place</a> An Intimate Geography of Home<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=172056">Catherine Reid</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 184 pages | Beacon Press | Nature - Essays; Literary Collections - Gay & Lesbian; Nature - Regional | <b>$24.95</b> | 978-0-8070-0993-2 (0-8070-0993-8)<p><b>Quietly powerful essays, weaving keenly observed insights into the mysteries of nature with those of family and community</b><br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not easy,&rdquo; Catherine Reid writes, &ldquo;to love a person and a place in equal measure.&rdquo; Love she does, however, as described in these intimate, lyric essays about the land and people around her. With the inside perspective of a native daughter combined with her outsider status as a lesbian, Reid explores such paradoxes as those that arise from harnessing wild rivers or legalizing same-sex marriage. Her fascination with natural phenomena&mdash;whether bird hibernation, the arrival of fishers in suburbia, or the explosion of amphibious life in the wet weeks of spring&mdash;is captured in writing that pays as much attention to the sounds of a sentence as to the rhythms of the landscapes she wanders. Ultimately, however, Reid finds herself having to choose between her lover and her home place. Solace comes from companions as varied as a praying mantis, an otter, and her hundred-year-old grandmother, while resilience shows up in the stories of streams recovering from toxic spills and in communities weathering floods and town meetings. In essays both sensuous and provocative, Reid faces the beauty and challenges of our changing world head-on.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97808070099322014-02-04T00:30:00-05:00Nature Wars by Jim Sterbawww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307341976"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307341976" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307341976">Nature Wars</a> The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=70814">Jim Sterba</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 368 pages | Broadway Books | Nature - Ecology; History - United States - 20th Century; Nature - Essays | <b>$14.95</b> | 978-0-307-34197-6 (0-307-34197-6)<p><p>For&#160;four hundred&#160;years, explorers, traders, and settlers plundered North American wildlife in an escalating rampage, but in the&#160;twentieth century an incredible turnaround took place. Conservationists created wildlife sanctuaries, restored habitats, and imposed regulations on hunters and trappers. Over decades, they nursed many wild populations back to health.<br><br>&#160;&#160;&#160;Then, after World War II, something happened that conservationists hadn&rsquo;t foreseen: sprawl. People moved into suburbs, and then kept moving outward. All the while, well-meaning efforts to protect animals allowed wild populations to burgeon out of control, causing damage costing billions, degrading ecosystems, and touching off disputes that polarized communities. The result is a mix of people and wildlife that should be an animal-lover&rsquo;s dream, but&#160;often turns&#160;into a sprawl-dweller&rsquo;s nightmare.&#160;<br><br>&#160;&#160;&#160;Deeply researched, eloquently written, and perceptively humorous,<i> Nature Wars</i> expresses the need for organic reconnection with our natural ecosystem by offering a provocative look at how Americans created an inadvertent mess.</p></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803073419762013-11-12T00:30:00-05:00GIFT OF DEER by Helen Hooverwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307831354"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307831354" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307831354">GIFT OF DEER</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=13476">Helen Hoover</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 160 pages | Knopf | Nature - Mammals; Nature - Essays; Nature - Wildlife | <b>$10.99</b> | 978-0-307-83135-4 (0-307-83135-3)<p>In the farthest wilds of northeastern Minnesota, back in the Gunflint Range, the author of this book and her artist-husband have a two-room cabin home in the bush country. Beginning one Christmas Day when they first watched the starving deer they later named Peter, the Hoovers had many opportunities, a passionate inclination, and the nature skills to observe this whitetail buck&mdash;joined later by his mate, and finally by several of their offspring&mdash;through the changing seasons of four years. Close as their relationship was to the generations of beautiful animals, the Hoovers did not consider them pets but fellow inhabitants of that wild country. Their observations reveal the rewards of living close to wild creatures; but more than that, they add valuable information to our knowledge of the cycle of life of the deer and other creatures native to the same world. For although the deer are the chief characters of this book, they are by no means the only wild creatures Mrs. Hoover writes of. Her naturalist&rsquo;s eye is just as sharp and her affection just as great for the antics of a curious chickadee or a flying squirrel. Mrs. Hoover&rsquo;s identification with nature knows no favoritism.<br>&#160;<br>The Hoovers&rsquo; world&mdash;the bush country of the United States-Canadian border&mdash;is farther removed from civilization than &ldquo;Mr. Emerson&rsquo;s woodlot,&rdquo; but the close relationship of <i>The Gift of the Deer</i> to <i>Walden</i> is evident for all to enjoy.<br>&#160;<br>Adrian Hoover&rsquo;s drawings are from life, and they add another level of understanding to his wife&rsquo;s vivid prose.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803078313542013-08-28T00:30:00-05:00A PLACE IN THE WOODS by Helen Hooverwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307831446"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307831446" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307831446">A PLACE IN THE WOODS</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=13476">Helen Hoover</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 304 pages | Knopf | Nature - Essays; Nature - Wildlife; Nature - Animals | <b>$10.99</b> | 978-0-307-83144-6 (0-307-83144-2)<p>To escape the city, to live close to nature in the beauty and quiet of the wilderness, to try to find within oneself a pioneer resourcefulness of spirit, mind, and hand&mdash;it is an almost universal dream. Helen Hoover and her husband made it come true for themselves, and this is the richly told story of how they did it.<br>&#160;<br>As she demonstrated in <i>The Gift of the Deer</i>&mdash;a book greatly loved and praised&mdash;Mrs. Hoover has the gift of sharing with her readers her own profound feeling for the wilderness she has made her home and for the wild animals whom she makes her friends, without destroying the integrity of their wild lives.<br>&#160;<br>But she was not always so at ease with nature. And she tells here how she and her husband, leaving behind everything that was familiar to them, bridged the infinite distance in life-style from Chicago, where they had lived, to a cabin home on the fringe of Minnesota&rsquo;s northernmost wilderness.<br>&#160;<br>Neither of them had so much as a Cub Scout&rsquo;s experience of the woods, and their first year was punctuated with near-disasters. They quickly discovered that a long-time desire for the simple Thoreauvian life was not enough. The obstinance of inanimate objects&mdash;the crumbling stone foundation, the leaky roof, the unruly double-bitted ax that <i>must</i> be mastered when you depend on a woodburning stove at thirty below&mdash;was new to them. The changing seasons astonished the not only with surprising loveliness but with unexpected crises of survival. But they managed, despite their trials, to rebuild their primitive cabin. And, as they worked and learned, they built for themselves, little by little, a rewarding relationship not only with the sparsely settled community but with a marvelous succession of their closest neighbors: wild weasels and jays, squirrels and shy fishers, even bears in the basement.<br>&#160;<br>The reader experiences it all, the hardships and joys, the gradual feeling of becoming connected to earth and elements, of belonging. The is the special delight of Helen Hoover&rsquo;s warm, evocative, and sometimes extremely funny account of the way in which two city people made for themselves <i>A Place in the Woods</i>.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803078314462013-08-28T00:30:00-05:00YEARS OF THE FOREST by Helen Hooverwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307831491"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307831491" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307831491">YEARS OF THE FOREST</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=13476">Helen Hoover</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 320 pages | Knopf | Nature - Essays; Nature - Wildlife; Nature - Animals | <b>$13.99</b> | 978-0-307-83149-1 (0-307-83149-3)<p>This is a book that takes us inside the Hoovers&rsquo; wilderness home during those sixteen Years of the Forest and lets us experience not only the joys and the techniques but also the challenges and travails of going it alone in the beautiful but not always accommodating wilderness, far from the technology and services that city people take for granted. It is a book of wilderness adventure, it is an education in the ingenuities of wilderness housekeeping, filled with practical details about making do, building and rebuilding, gardening for fun and for food, even advice about getting away from getting-away-from-it-all. <br>&#160;<br>Good times and Hard times, good neighbors and bad neighbors, the strains engendered by conflicting views&mdash;and passions&mdash;about the use of the environment: Mrs. Hoover shares her experience without stint. But above all&mdash;over, under, and all around her straightforward and practical approach to life in the wilderness&mdash;there is, as always, the sensitive and moving awareness of nature (especially of the animals with whom she and her husband shared the forest, often helping them through starving winters) that is the special quality of her writing and her life.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803078314912013-08-28T00:30:00-05:00Daddy Long Legs by John Pricewww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781611800029"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781611800029" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781611800029">Daddy Long Legs</a> The Natural Education of a Father<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=160647">John Price</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 224 pages | Trumpeter | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Family & Relationships; Nature - Essays | <b>$14.95</b> | 978-1-61180-002-9 (1-61180-002-1)<p>&ldquo;If David Sedaris and Annie Dillard had a literary love child and raised him in Iowa, he would write like this.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>The Iowan </i><br><br>John Price appears to have thrown in the towel. He has spent the last year struggling to support his family, neglecting to spend time with his wife and children, and becoming increasingly cynical about the degraded state of the natural world around him. After a heart-attack scare, however, his wife demands that he start appreciating all the &ldquo;good things&rdquo; in his life: their mouse-infested old house, their hopelessly overgrown yard, and most of all, the joys and humiliations of parenthood. <br><br>In his quest to become a better father, Price faces many unexpected challenges&mdash;like understanding his grandmother&rsquo;s decision to die, and supporting his nature-loving sons&rsquo; decision to make their home a &ldquo;no-kill zone&rdquo; for all living creatures. Still he finds the second chance he was looking for&mdash;to save himself and, perhaps, his small corner of an imperfect yet still beautiful world.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97816118000292013-05-14T00:30:00-05:00Hunger Mountain by David Hintonwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781611800166"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781611800166" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781611800166">Hunger Mountain</a> A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=156188">David Hinton</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 144 pages | Shambhala | Nature - Essays; Philosophy - Eastern | <b>$14.00</b> | 978-1-61180-016-6 (1-61180-016-1)<p>Come along with David Hinton on a series of walks through the wild beauty of Hunger Mountain, near his home in Vermont&mdash;excursions informed by the worldview he&rsquo;s imbibed from his many years translating the classics of Chinese poetry and philosophy. His broad-ranging discussion offers insight on everything from the mountain landscape to the origins of consciousness and the Cosmos, from geology to Chinese landscape painting, from parenting to pictographic oracle-bone script, to a family chutney recipe. It&rsquo;s a spiritual ecology that is profoundly ancient and at the same time resoundingly contemporary. Your view of the landscape&mdash;and of your place in it&mdash;may never be the same.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97816118001662012-11-13T00:30:00-05:00Nature Wars by Jim Sterbawww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307341969"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307341969" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307341969">Nature Wars</a> The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=70814">Jim Sterba</a></h3><b>Hardcover</b>, 368 pages | Crown | Nature - Ecology; History - United States - 20th Century; Nature - Essays | <b>$26.00</b> | 978-0-307-34196-9 (0-307-34196-8)<p><p>This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history.&#160; For nature lovers, this should be wonderful news -- unless, perhaps, you are one of more than 4,000 drivers who will hit a deer today, your child&rsquo;s soccer field is carpeted with goose droppings, coyotes are killing your pets, the neighbor&rsquo;s cat has turned your bird feeder into a fast-food outlet, wild turkeys have eaten your newly-planted seed corn, beavers have flooded your driveway, or bears are looting your garbage cans.<br>&#160;<br>For 400 years, explorers, traders, and settlers plundered North American wildlife and forests in an escalating rampage that culminated in the late 19th century&rsquo;s &ldquo;era of extermination.&rdquo;&#160; By 1900, populations of many wild animals and birds had been reduced to isolated remnants or threatened with extinction, and worry mounted that we were running out of trees. Then, in the 20th century, an incredible turnaround took place. Conservationists outlawed commercial hunting, created wildlife sanctuaries, transplanted isolated species to restored habitats and imposed regulations on hunters and trappers. Over decades, they slowly nursed many wild populations back to health.<br>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <br>But after the Second World War something happened that conservationists hadn&rsquo;t foreseen: sprawl. People moved first into suburbs on urban edges, and then kept moving out across a landscape once occupied by family farms. By 2000, a majority of Americans lived in neither cities nor country but in that vast in-between. Much of sprawl has plenty of trees and its human residents offer up more and better amenities than many wild creatures can find in the wild: plenty of food, water, hiding places, and protection from predators with guns. The result is a mix of people and wildlife that should be an animal-lover&rsquo;s dream-come-true but often turns into a sprawl-dweller&rsquo;s nightmare.<br><br><i>Nature Wars</i> offers an eye-opening look at how &#160;Americans lost touch with the natural landscape, spending 90 percent of their time indoors where nature arrives via television, films and digital screens in which wild creatures often behave like people or cuddly pets.&#160; All the while our well-meaning efforts to protect animals allowed wild populations to burgeon out of control, causing damage costing billions, degrading ecosystems, and touching off disputes that polarized communities, setting neighbor against neighbor. Deeply researched, eloquently written, counterintuitive and often humorous <i>Nature Wars</i> will be the definitive book on how we created this unintended mess.&#160;<br>&#160;</p></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803073419692012-11-13T00:30:00-05:00Nature Wars by Jim Sterbawww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307985668"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307985668" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307985668">Nature Wars</a> The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=70814">Jim Sterba</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 368 pages | Crown | Nature - Ecology; History - United States - 20th Century; Nature - Essays | <b>$11.99</b> | 978-0-307-98566-8 (0-307-98566-0)<p><p>This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history.&#160; For nature lovers, this should be wonderful news -- unless, perhaps, you are one of more than 4,000 drivers who will hit a deer today, your child&rsquo;s soccer field is carpeted with goose droppings, coyotes are killing your pets, the neighbor&rsquo;s cat has turned your bird feeder into a fast-food outlet, wild turkeys have eaten your newly-planted seed corn, beavers have flooded your driveway, or bears are looting your garbage cans.<br>&#160;<br>For 400 years, explorers, traders, and settlers plundered North American wildlife and forests in an escalating rampage that culminated in the late 19th century&rsquo;s &ldquo;era of extermination.&rdquo;&#160; By 1900, populations of many wild animals and birds had been reduced to isolated remnants or threatened with extinction, and worry mounted that we were running out of trees. Then, in the 20th century, an incredible turnaround took place. Conservationists outlawed commercial hunting, created wildlife sanctuaries, transplanted isolated species to restored habitats and imposed regulations on hunters and trappers. Over decades, they slowly nursed many wild populations back to health.<br>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <br>But after the Second World War something happened that conservationists hadn&rsquo;t foreseen: sprawl. People moved first into suburbs on urban edges, and then kept moving out across a landscape once occupied by family farms. By 2000, a majority of Americans lived in neither cities nor country but in that vast in-between. Much of sprawl has plenty of trees and its human residents offer up more and better amenities than many wild creatures can find in the wild: plenty of food, water, hiding places, and protection from predators with guns. The result is a mix of people and wildlife that should be an animal-lover&rsquo;s dream-come-true but often turns into a sprawl-dweller&rsquo;s nightmare.<br><br><i>Nature Wars</i> offers an eye-opening look at how &#160;Americans lost touch with the natural landscape, spending 90 percent of their time indoors where nature arrives via television, films and digital screens in which wild creatures often behave like people or cuddly pets.&#160; All the while our well-meaning efforts to protect animals allowed wild populations to burgeon out of control, causing damage costing billions, degrading ecosystems, and touching off disputes that polarized communities, setting neighbor against neighbor. Deeply researched, eloquently written, counterintuitive and often humorous <i>Nature Wars</i> will be the definitive book on how we created this unintended mess.&#160;<br>&#160;</p></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803079856682012-11-13T00:30:00-05:00LISTENING POINT by Sigurd F Olsonwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307822253"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307822253" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307822253">LISTENING POINT</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=22792">Sigurd F Olson</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 242 pages | Knopf | Nature - Essays | <b>$9.99</b> | 978-0-307-82225-3 (0-307-82225-7)<p>&ldquo;<i>Listening Point</i> tells of what I have seen and heard on a bare glaciated spit of rock in the Quetico-Superior country. Each time I have gone there I have found something new that has opened up whole realms of thought and interest. From it I have glimpsed the immensity of space and at times the grandeur of creation.<br><br> &ldquo;I believe that I have experienced there one of the oldest satisfactions of man; when as he gazed upon the earth and sky, he sensed the first vague glimmerings of meaning in the universe. I know that while we were born with curiosity and wonder, and our early years are full of the adventure they bring, such inherent joys are often lost. I also know that, being deep within us, their latent glow can be fanned to flame again by awareness and an open mind.<br><br> &ldquo;<i>Listening Point</i> is dedicated to rekindling that flame by capturing this almost forgotten sense of wonder, and learning from rocks and trees and all the life that surrounds them truths that can encompass all. <br><br> &ldquo;I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one comes sharpens one&rsquo;s awareness, can one see and hear in the sense in which I use these words. Everyone has a listening point somewhere, some quiet place where he can contemplate the awesome universe. This book is simply the story of what such a place has meant to me. The experiences that have been mine can be known by anyone who will make the effort.&rdquo;<br><br> Thus the author of <i>The Singing Wilderness</i> sets the tone of his new book&mdash;a book that not only successfully recaptures the to-be-treasured sense of wonder of which he speaks, but also brings to life, in all its essential grandeur, the unparalleled heritage of lakes and rivers and forests we are so fortunate to be able to call our own. <i>Listening Point</i> is a book that will rekindle spirits wearied by the turmoils of twentieth-century living&mdash;that will teach us a new way to look at the world around us and to feel the better for it.<br><br> With 28 magnificent black-and-white drawings by Francis Lee Jacques.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803078222532012-07-04T00:30:00-05:00Lonely Land by Sigurd F Olsonwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307822260"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307822260" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307822260">Lonely Land</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=22792">Sigurd F Olson</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 272 pages | Knopf | Nature - Essays | <b>$13.99</b> | 978-0-307-82226-0 (0-307-82226-5)<p>The author of <i>The Singing Wilderness </i>and <i>Listening Point </i>begins this grand adventure: &ldquo;There are few places left on the North American continent where men can still see the country as it was before Europeans came and know some of the challenges and freedoms of those who saw it first, but in the Canadian Northwest it can still be done. A thousand miles northwest of Lake Superior are great free rivers, lakes whose horizons disappear, countless unnamed waterways, and ridges and forested valleys still largely unknown.&rdquo;<br>&#160; <br> Into this land of Crees, Chippewyans, Yellow Knives, and Dig Rib Indians had once come the <i>voyageur</i>, the Hudson Bay trader, and a succession of adventurers&mdash;gentlemen and otherwise&mdash;who used the mighty Churchill River as a major waterway from Hudson Bay to the Mackenzie.<br><br>&ldquo;It was the trail of these voyageurs we followed,&rdquo; says the author, &ldquo;a trail that led from the height of land where waters flow north to the Arctic and east to Hudson Bay, to Cumberland House five hundred miles away. Every portage, camp site, and rapids, every mile of this waterway of lakes and rivers was steeped in the drama of exploration and trade.&rdquo;<br><br>&ldquo;We traveled as the voyageurs did by canoe, paddled the same lakes, ran the same rapids, and packed over their ancient portages. We knew the winds and storms, saw the same sky lines, and felt the awe and wonderment that was theirs at the enormous expanses and grandeur of a land that was once as strange and challenging to them as to us.&rdquo;<br><br>Mr. Olson has illuminated his own cruise with quotations from journals and diaries of such men as George Simpson, David Thompson, Alexander Henry, and Alexander Mackenzie&mdash;as well as a host of other explorers-traders whose voices speak from the old Moose Fort Journals of the Hudson&rsquo;s Bay Company.<br><br>Mr. Olson serves as the Bourgeois of the party of six&mdash;the boss who ran the trip, chose the routes, picked the camp sites. His companions and he relived for all readers of this book what life was <i>then </i>in the wilds of the Canadian Northwest. Mr. Olson combines his inimitable ability to evoke the beauties and wonders of the wilderness&mdash;its animals, birds, and its very spirit&mdash;with a dramatic talent for taking the reader along the route of the men who pioneered that wilderness.<br><br>Francis Lee Jacques, whose genius to evoke the wilderness in pen and ink is unchallenged, has illuminated this book by his drawings, as he did <i>The Singing Wilderness </i>and <i>Listening Point.</i></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803078222602012-07-04T00:30:00-05:00